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NITED STATES PATENT HENRY P. PFEFFER AND FRANK T. MAYER,OF NEIN ORLEANS,LOUISIANA.

CHIMNEY-HOLDER FOR LAMP-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,007, dated December13, 1898. Application filed June 29, 1898- Serial No- 684,'760. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY P. PFEFFER and FRANK T. MAYER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans andState of Louisiana, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements inChimney-Holders for Lamp-Burners; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in chimney-holders forlamp-burners; and it has for its object the production of a cheap,simple, and efficient device which enables a 1am pchimney to be normallyheld securely in place upon the burner and yet when desired to be tiltedover for the purpose of lighting the lamp, cleaning the wick, &c.

Our invention consists in the novel construction hereinafter describedand claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a lamp burner provided with ourimproved chimney-holder attachment, the chimney being shown in itsnormal vertical position in full lines and the said chimney and thetilting holder being shown in dotted lines in the tilted position. Fig.2 represents a fragmentary sectional View through the burner, showingthe construction of the hinge member thereon and the arrangement of thestop for the tilting attachment. Fig. 3 represents an elevation of saidtilting chimney-holder attachment, and Fig. 4 represents an elevation ofthe burner as seen from the leftiu Fig. 1.

The burnerA is of a common construction, provided with the usualspring-uprights A, usually fourin number, but two adjacent ones of whichare omitted for the purpose of our invention.

At that side of the lamp-burner upon which the hinge of the cap A islocated the two usual spring-uprights are omitted, and a curved hollowmetallic frame B, of such shape and width as to receive snugly the edgeof a lamp-chimney, is hinged by means of alug 1), formed centrally uponits base, as in Fig. 3. The lug b has a central opening through whichpasses a wire I), inclosed in the lower rim of the base or platform ofthe burner upon which the chimney rests, as seen in Fig. 2, a notch orslot being out into the said rim of the base of the burner to admit thelug b. When in its upright position, the hollow frame B so rests uponthe rim of the base of the burner as that its interior curved chamber orpocket 5 lies in a vertical plane coincident with the vertical plane ofthe base of the chimney in position upon the burner.

The two spring-arms A upon the opposite side of the burner from that ofthe hinged frame B serve to hold the chimney securely in its verticalposition against accidental displacement and yet allow the chimney to betilted over with the hinged frame B when desired.

In order to prevent the chimney being tilted over too far and in orderto support the chimney and hinged frame, we provide a curved stop 0,which is secured to the under side of the burner, as at c, and isstrengthened by a brace 0 The curved outer end of the stop is soarranged that when the chimney and hinged frame B have been tilted oversufficiently to give free access to the lamp-Wick for lighting orcleaning the same the said frame B will come in contact with the point 0of said curved stop, and its further downward movement will be arrested.

It will thus be seen that we provide an exceedingly simple, cheap, andeflicient attachment for holding the chimney during the process oflighting the lamp and doing away entirely with the inconvenience andtrouble ordinarily encountered in replacing the chimney upon the burnerprovided simply with the four spring-uprights generally use Having thusdescribed our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a lamp-burner, the combination with a fixed spring-upright forholding the chimney, of a frame provided with an interior pocket adaptedto receive the edge of the base of the chimney, and hinged to the edgeof the burner in such a manner as to allow of the tilting outwardlythereof, and means for limiting the outward movement of said hingedframe, substantially as described.

2. In a lamp-burner, the combination with a fixed spring-upright forholding the chimney, of a frame provided with an interior pocket adaptedto receive the edge of the base of the chimney and hinged to the edge ofthe burner in such a manner as to allow of the tilting outwardlythereof, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a lamp-burner provided with a plurality ofspring-uprights A, of a curved hollow frame B hinged to the edge of theburner at a point farthest from said spring-uprights, and adapted toreceive the edge of the base of a lamp-chimney within its hollow chamberor pocket, and a fixed support secured to the base of the burner forsupporting the chimney and the hinged frame in their tilted position,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY P. PFEFFER. FRANK T. MAYER. \Vitnesses:

JOHN J. SAUCIER, J. H. FERGUSON.

